Disciplines / Research questions
Sociology
10 research topics · 35 questions
Implementation gap between low fertility intentions and actual fertility behavior4 questions
Measurement artefact or country context? Decomposing cross-national differences in short-term fertility intentions and their realisation in the Generations and Gender Survey
Converting fertility intentions into childbearing: mechanisms and conditions of the fertility intention–behavior gap in low-fertility China
Why strong short-term reproductive intentions go unrealised at higher ages: decomposing biomedical, behavioural, and socio-economic causes
The second-birth intention–behavior gap in China: generalizing the multi-step, multi-actor reproductive decision framework and its intrafamilial mechanisms
The Measurement Paradox of Living Alone Growth Not Synchronizing with Subjective Loneliness2 questions
Sex-specific pathways from living arrangements, loneliness, and emotional support to suicide and self-harm: mechanisms, causal status, and intervention effects
Does the historic rise of living alone cause loneliness? Causal pathways and historically comparable measurement of the living-alone–loneliness link
Does educational expansion exacerbate credential inflation and effectively maintained advantage?4 questions
Is the post-2006 weakening of university graduates' wage position in Germany the onset of credential inflation? Extending and decomposing educational wage premiums beyond 2010
Persistence and causal mechanisms of effectively maintained inequality in the Czech secondary school system after 2009
Causal mechanisms of maintained social class inequality in British higher education: from the descriptive confirmation of MMI and EMI to explanation
Educational expansion or credential inflation? Explaining part-time adult study in higher education and its equity consequences
Causal Separation of Neighborhood Effects and Family Self-Selection3 questions
Residential self-selection versus built-environment causation: attitude dynamics around relocation and the external validity of quasi-experimental causal estimates
Causal identification of neighbourhood deprivation effects on adolescent violent criminality and substance misuse
Selection bias or disruptive voucher moves: reconciling experimental and nonexperimental estimates of neighborhood effects on adults' economic outcomes
Whether the Advantage of Weak Ties Reverses in the Age of Digital Platforms4 questions
Causal direction and mechanisms of the link between income inequality and the marginal value of strong ties in job finding
Causal Identification and Joint Structural Estimation of Online Social Network Tie Effects on Unemployed Job Search
Causal effects of tie strength and network formation on job finding and job-match quality in online social networks
Tie strength in the sociotechnical job search network: a direct Strength of Weak Ties test centered on the single most helpful source, together with tie-strength dynamics, perceived versus structural bridging, and information-quality moderators
Distinguishing homophily from social contagion in social networks4 questions
Feedback-robust negative-control identification of contagion effects under homophily
Identifying and Bounding Social Contagion Effects under Latent Homophily in Observational Social Network Data
Identification of peer influence in dynamic networks under unobserved homophily and endogenous tie formation
Completing instrumental-variable identification of peer effects in longitudinal dyadic data: non-linear models and unremedied homophily and confounding structures
The Promoting and Exclusion Effects of Social Capital on Post-Disaster Recovery4 questions
Testing the generality and measuring the impact of emergent NGO-mediated social capital ("networking privilege") in unequal urban disaster recovery
The exclusionary externalities of strong local social capital in post-disaster recovery: generality and context-sensitive measurement (Aldrich, 2011)
Household social capital in post-disaster recovery: unresolved questions of causal directionality, measurement standardization, generalization beyond the Izu-Oshima case, and collective-action mechanisms
Bonding, bridging, and linking social capital in disaster recovery: validated field measurement and the quantitative evidence base called for after Hurricane Katrina
The Great Gatsby Curve in the Relationship Between Income Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility4 questions
Endogenous wealth in the positional-competition model: deriving the joint distribution of wealth and income behind the Great Gatsby curve
Causal and institutional drivers of cross-country variation in intergenerational poverty persistence in Europe (the 'poverty Great Gatsby curve')
The dynamic Great Gatsby Curve: does within-country change in income inequality over time change intergenerational mobility, and through which channel?
Does income inequality causally reduce intergenerational mobility? Causal identification of the inequality–mobility relationship and the separate roles of overall and top-end inequality
The Actual Scale of Online Echo Chamber Effects and Platform Differences4 questions
Echo chambers in the US news ecosystem on Twitter/X: robustness to measurement design and translation to audience exposure
Causal drivers and generalizability of platform-level ideological fragmentation (echo platforms) in the social media ecosystem
Causal mechanisms behind cross-platform ideological alignment and echo chambers in climate-change discussions on Twitter/X and YouTube
Causal attribution of cross-platform differences in echo-chamber signatures on social media